PHU BAI G C A

This is the true story of an episode in the life of a young spud pilot.

"Miss Smith was born in 1912 and she lost her father in the first world
war... Her mother managed to keep the family together and Miss Smith got
married in 1939 and became Mrs. Jones. Mr Jones became Sergeant Jones and went
to war and in two years Mrs Jones got a telegram telling her that she was now
the idow Jones... Well the widow Jones struggled and kept her family and when
her son Johnny grew up he joined the army and went into army aviation...
He went to viet name and became a spud. Every day the widow Jones went to
the mailbox and pulled out a letter from Johnny... Then one day the letter didn't
come... The next day there was a knock at the door 'Knock, Knock' the widow
went to the door and there stood a man in uniform... "Oh wonderful" the widow
Jones did say "You must be the new postman with a letter from my son". "No
Madam, this is a rather special telegram" the man in uniform said. "Oh, I
know its a singing telegram, a singing telegram from my son." "Well, ma'am
it's not exactly a singing telegram" the man in uniform said, "Oh yes, I
just know that its a singing telegram---Please Mr Telegram Man sing me my
telegram..."

And this is what the man in uniform sang:

Your son is dead, they say--he bought the farm today,
He got below glisdeslope on the Phu Bai G C A
And now he's on the ground, He's sort of spread around
What....More...Can....I ...Say....

(CHORUS)
Your...sons comin home in a body bag, doo dah, doo dah
Your sons coming home in a body bag, doo dah, doo dah day
Shot through the head---That Motherfuckers dead
Your songs coming home in a body bag, oh doo dah day

And the grieving widow said "How did my son go?"

STRAIGHT DOWN !

"Well, what was my son doing?"

300 KNOTS!

(CHORUS)
Will I've got a job in the one thirty first, do dah, doo dah,
I'm taking bets on who'll die first, oh, doo dah day
Will it be IR? No, perhaps its SLAR,
Your sons coming home in a body bag, all the doo dah day

Don't wrap 'em, bag 'em!!   IN BAGGIES!!!

From The Spud Hymnal. 1970. 1st ed. pg 6.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1971spudhymnal-1stedition/page/6/mode/1up